California’s Cabrillo Festival Orchestra with Music Director and Conductor Cristian Măcelaru.
In Thursday’s (7/18) I Care If You Listen, Esteban Meneses writes, “The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, a new-music enthusiast’s dream destination in Santa Cruz, Calif., for 62 years has distinguished itself among summer festivals for its exclusive focus on living composers. [Bora] Yoon is returning to Cabrillo this year, which runs July 29 to August 11, as one of 15 composers in residence working with Cristian Măcelaru, the festival’s music director since 2017. Her new piece PARHELION, one of four world premieres, was commissioned for Cabrillo’s inaugural Creative Lab, an initiative designed to give creative independence to the composer…. Cabrillo 2024 also includes the world premiere of Casting the Dice by Iván Enrique Rodríguez … The August 3 program includes the world premiere of Nathaniel Heyder’s unbound: Phase 1, a short piece commissioned by Cabrillo…. The fourth Cabrillo world premiere, on the August 2 program, is Karim Al-Zand’s Al Hakawati, which consists of fragments from an opera still in progress … Between Heyder and Rodríguez comes the West Coast premiere of Lembit Beecher’s Tell Me Again, a cello concerto for his wife, Karen Ouzounian.” Other West Coast premieres include works by Helen Grime, Errollyn Wallen, Vivian Fung, Clarice Assad, Daniel Kellogg, Nina C. Young, and Wynton Marsalis, as well as recent works by Pierre Jalbert and Juan Pablo Contreras.
